Maged Iskarous

The Global #Disability Summit is just a week away. Find and add colleagues, so that we can connect and organize: go.bsky.app/V5vJfVj #GDS2025

Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity The McGill School of Population and Global Health is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity. The nomination deadline is Sunday, June 8th, 2025. Paul Farmer, ...

Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity @mcgill.ca

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New in The Academic Activist: Words for equity cannot disappear.

We live in a time when solidarity, empathy, and respect may be the core vocabulary for health.

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Long COVID science, research and policy - Nature Medicine This Review outlines the current state of scientific evidence on long COVID, discusses its impacts on patients, health systems, economies and global health metrics, and proposes a forward-looking rese...

You can see here this correlates with this study on long covid. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Newsletter

Check out this week's IHP news 820: 5-year anniversary of the Covid pandemic & a ‘Defining Moment’ www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u... Including a Feat article by @gorikooms.bsky.social & colleagues.

Maged Iskarous, RPh, MBA, MPH on LinkedIn: Female Genital Mutilation by Maged Iskarous - August 2015 A Decade Ago, This Was My First MPH Essay—And It Was About Women’s Rights Today, on International Women’s Day, I find myself reflecting on a piece of writing…

A Decade Ago, My First MPH Essay Was on Women’s Rights

On Intern‘l Women’s Day, I reflect on my first MPH assignment in 2015—an essay on FGM. I chose this because FGM isn’t just a health issue—it’s a violation of women’s rights. A decade later, the fight isn’t over. www.linkedin.com/posts/magedi...

Maged Iskarous, RPh, MBA, MPH on LinkedIn: Systems Thinking for AI Governance in Healthcare Yesterday, I had the honor of presenting my work titled "Governance Strategies for AI in Healthcare Using Systems Thinking" at the Scientific Day on AI in…

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At a recent AI in Healthcare event, I presented “Governance Strategies for AI in Healthcare Using Systems Thinking.” Using the human body’s homeostasis as a metaphor, I showed how interconnected systems can balance challenges like privacy, bias, & hidden conflicts.

Updated, now with over 100 global health organizations

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Updated!

50+ global health organizations to follow

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We now have 3 starter packs for Global Health Nerds!

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Will keep updating!

Newsletter

Check out this week's IHP news 804: Final dispatch from Nagasaki www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u... To subscribe to the weekly KM tool: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org Next issue in two weeks: around 8 December.

All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

Starter pack directory for anyone trying to figure out who to follow! Search whatever keywords you like. There are also instructions for having your starter pack added to the list. #MedSky #Medicine #STEM

Here is the starter pack of people working on the psychology of collective action, social change and resistance. DM me or reply below if you'd like to be added.

go.bsky.app/CnZmUxA

#CollectiveAction #SocialChange #Resistance #SocialPsychology #PoliticalPsychology

At #HSR2024 and wondering where to follow and post - as an individual and in your organizational capacity? Is social media becoming a significant determinant of health?

We’ve got you covered with the timeliest session 😉 Join Thursday, 11.40am.

Passport And Visa Privileges In Global Health The field of global health is extraordinarily unequal, with privileged people and institutions in the global North dominating all aspects of global health. One form of privilege, the passports and vis...

Global health can never be global because the global north is truly a “walled world” locking out everyone else

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The Foreign Gaze - Essays on Global Health - Seye Abimbola (EAN13 : 9782709930437) | Un éditeur pour le développement The Foreign Gaze - Essays on Global Health - Seye Abimbola (EAN13 : 9782709930437)

I'm really looking forward to reading @seyeabimbola.bsky.social's forthcoming 📖 on structural prejudice and epistemic injustice in academic global health.
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You can download it for free, although I'd suggest buying a copy if you're from a high-income country.

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Starter Packs feels a bit like making a mixtape to this 80s kid...

I ran into the max number pretty fast so apologies to anyone I missed and I'll have to make a Volume II!: go.bsky.app/2ZUFQtv

As the exodus from Twitter continues, more and more of our @cplusc.bsky.social fellows are posting here. If you want to hear about many of the best new ideas on climate, economic, & racial justice across a huge array of economic sectors + geographies, here's the starter pack go.bsky.app/VRstAbM

Nature-based solutions are a game-changer: buffering shorelines from storms, shading cities and protecting them from flood, boosting crops with less water and fertilizer, and even improving human health. They're powerful, underused--and the future.

Meet the experts leading this vital work ⬇️

I made one here! go.bsky.app/ARRb7Xn

Plenty of good #Climate and Climate adjacent #StarterPacks but how about a good 🧵that makes them all super easy to find and follow? I'm glad I asked. Here you go!
#ClimateChange #Renewables #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Advocacy #Activism bsky.app/starter-pack...

I've started compiling a starter pack of researchers and advocates working in public health and health promotion. Its not complete and I can add to it, so would love if you could pop any recommendations for anyone else below!

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Brilliant starter pack on adaptation to climate change by @meadekrosby.bsky.social :) go.bsky.app/3G5Eono

If you had to read one book on global health... If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 400 books generated by this question on Twitter!

To all the global health nerds joining @bsky.app, here are some welcome gifts 🎁

A compilation of over 400 amazing books on global health!

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Made my first starter pack! These are the climate journalists I know and love and highly recommend following on BlueSky so far. Please tell me who I'm missing (and apologies in advance if I've missed you, I swear it's not intentional!)

go.bsky.app/1ivUnG

I've started a list of people working on #cancer #evolution. Many more to be added, so do let me know if that is you. Also if you would like to be removed. go.bsky.app/QuAF4Mo

I haven't seen one out there yet, so I created a Sexual and Reproductive Health starter pack! Let me know who I missed that's here.

Looking forward to building back community here, especially as we gear up for these next few years.

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Scientists who do Art #scienceart

Let me know if you want to be added!

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And I made one for single cell which is needs more people, but is still a starting point 😅

go.bsky.app/U57Mar8

Added new folks to the #Immunology Starter Pack 🧪

@sarahdimeloe.bsky.social
@mahimaswamy.bsky.social
@profken.bsky.social
@johannajoyce.bsky.social
@alanmcn1.bsky.social
@immunoah.bsky.social
@bnmelgert.bsky.social
@copperbae.bsky.social
@benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social

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